Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place.

Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and he sneaked back in illegally. Now, officials are wondering why a much-touted federal program didn't catch him before the rape.

Four weeks before the crime, Portillo-Saravia was in the Loudoun County jail for public intoxication. That's when the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program, called Secure Communities, should have identified him as an illegal immigrant and he should have been taken into custody.

Loudoun authorities ran Portillo-Saravia's fingerprints through a federal database, but despite the 2003 deportation, nothing was found. He was released after 12 hours behind bars.

Portillo-Saravia, 29, is now the subject of a manhunt by local police and federal marshals.

Officials involved with Secure Communities and immigration experts said the incident points to confusion about how the program should work and to gaps in the immigration database. Many people who were deported before 2005, including Portillo-Saravia, are not in the fingerprint database, ICE officials said.

Jail officials in Virginia and Maryland who have relied on the program said they were not aware of the gap in the database.

"I was under the impression that everybody they had contact with was in the system," Henrico County Sheriff Michael L. Wade said.

An illegal raped and murdered a professional woman here in this city. I don’t know if they have even found him yet. He ran off to another state and the “manhunt” was on for this low life also as in this case.

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posted on 01/26/2011 7:00:24 PM PST
by Democrat_media
(Why is no government creating a product we can hold in our hands like a cell phone..?)

Unfortunately the current “Catch and Release” model, in which they can at least (hopefully) raise revenues via traffic tickets & such, seems to be adequate to those who are responsible for our national defense.

Damn, they tell the cops it is profiling to run a back ground check on trash like this, now they are saying why did the system not work. Catch them all and deport no exceptions and don’t separate the mothers and their kids they all go.

Sorry. This is Virginia, and Sterling is about a mile from where I live. A tremendous number of illegals moved here after Prince William County started cracking down on them. In my part of far western Fairfax county, they at least stopped them from hanging out in town, and they started to close down the dormitory houses for violating code, so many of the illegals have moved over to Sterling, in the next county.

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posted on 01/26/2011 8:26:31 PM PST
by VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")

Arlington is trying to remove itself from the program - [Illegal immigrant checking system] because officials think it threatens public safety by promoting distrust between police and the immigrant community, the county's board declared in a resolution last fall.

On Wednesday, Carlos Hernandez, 24, pleaded guilty to a September rape and abduction which began at the Virginia Beach oceanfront.

According to Virginia Beach Commonweatlh’s Attorney Harvey Bryant, the victim was walking through a McDonalds parking lot in the 2100 block of Pacific Avenue when she was abducted at knifepoint by Hernandez and his accomplice, Santiago Jiminez, also an illegal alien.

The woman was forced into an SUV and driven to another location, while both Hernandez and Jiminez took turns assaulting her.

They eventually stopped at a convenience store in Chesapeake, where the victim escaped and called police.

Upon questioning, Hernandez quickly confessed to raping the woman. His sentencing is set for June 1, 2011.

What is even more maddening about this is that DOJ paid HUNDREDS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to EDS (then owned by General Motors) to set up an identification database for the Border Patrol back in the early 1990s. It never worked. The individual BP posts could not communicate with each other, or the main office, let alone the FBI. There have been two or three very expensive tries in the meantime. There is no excuse for not having been fingerprinting deportees and keeping those prints in an accessible database since the 1990s.

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